On what grounds did David irvine have to dismiss the holocaust?

Question

I know that he is clearly trying to cut a path through intellectual bracken, but what did he think happened?
Has he seen schindlers list? Does he deny any other historical event? like agincourt? the discovery of steam power? The big bang????

Answer 1

He didn't dismiss it out right, he questioned it. He basically played with the numbers, thinking the Germans weren't efficient enough to kill six million people.

I personally don't question the Holocaust. My own experience of human kind and my knowledge of history tells me that it had to happen, or else a lot of other history makes no sense.

But when you get to be an expert, I suppose you can try to come up with alternative explanations. These academics get bored, and they say all sorts of alternative theories and revisionisms all the time.

There will probably be an even worse genocide in the near future though. Hatred seems to be on the rise again.

The Nazis falsely accused the Jews as a people of being terrorists, of all the violence associated with Bolshevism and riots. Now I read and hear people who think that some middle eastern countries have violence "on their genes".

People who want to justify their hatred will sometimes deny past atrocities, or sometimes will twist them to justify future atrocities.

I see no evidence of the Big Bang. That is not history, as no one was around to witness and record it. It is a theory of convenience, like the earth in the centre of the universe theory.

The Guardian, who repeatedly calls him a Nazi, did quote him fairly once:
"At the end, I suppose, it is my own fault for having explained myself inadequately clearly,"

Answer 2

I think that this is a secondary point for consideration.

The existence of legislation in a Western country that makes those whose challenge history liable to imprisonment takes us a big step along the road towards the type of government that the West is forever criticising.
If the facts of the Jewish holocaust stand scrutiny, they need no legislative protection. It says so much about the disproportionate amount of Jewish influence in the West that this unique legislation has ever been passed.

Answer 3

his grounds are hes mentally disabled.